"What the hell is that?"
Inside the Hall of Eternity, the Blood Emperor was the first to lose his composure. His gaunt body leaned forward, his blood-red eyes widening as he stared at the image in the light mirror.
"What is he eating?"
The God Emperor frowned too, confusion filling his golden eyes.
"Are those Manifestations eating?"
The Nether Emperor's gray eyes shifted slightly, his voice wavering. "Manifestations are Dao Resonance made visible, projections of energy. They shouldn't have physical bodies, much less be able to eat!"
The Elf Emperor covered her red lips, astonishment filling her emerald eyes. "But look. They really are drinking the soup ladled from that Black Cauldron, and their auras are clearly growing stronger afterward!"
The Heavenly Human Emperor snorted. "Cheap tricks!"
Yet for all his bluster, he did not take his eyes off the light mirror.
Kong Xian said nothing. He simply watched.
His gaze rested on Fang Chen. The young man sat cross-legged among the Five Manifestations, his aura serene, as though he were enjoying an ordinary dinner rather than practicing Artifact Crafting.
Yet beneath that ordinariness lurked something that made even Kong Xian's heart tremble.
"Is that a Chaos Worm?"
The Human Emperor suddenly spoke, an unusual gravity in his voice.
He pointed at the translucent worm before the Chaos Giant. "I saw one of those once during the Primordial Era. It's a Mutant Species born at the Chaos Primordial Opening. It feeds on Chaos energy and contains a Small World within its body. It vanished from the Savage World long ago!"
"Where did this young man find one?"
The God Emperor frowned. "And the Immortal Herb growing from the cracks in that Five-Colored Divine Stone—that's Heaven Mending Grass. Legend says this Innate Spiritual Root appears only when heaven and earth first